The PA Digital Futures Task Force, convened in Fall 2020, recently completed its charge by developing the report below that outlines a proposed vision for the future of PA Digital. The goal of the PA Digital Futures Task Force was to support continuity and sustainability planning, with input from our Read more…
PA Digital contributors have shared a number of recipe books with the DPLA so to kick off the summer season, we are highlighting some of the treats to make over the next few months. Warning: sweet tooths should proceed with caution. First up is a Presbyterian cook-book contributed by the University of Read more…
PA Digital Team members have recently been hard at work implementing a new aggregator to better gather and review contributor collections for exposure through the DPLA. We’re moving away from our homegrown aggregator and are adopting Combine, an application developed at Wayne State University as part of the Michigan DPLA Read more…
This year marked the fifth edition of the GIF IT UP competition where Europeana, in cooperation with Digital Public Library of America, Digital NZ and Trove, asked users to create GIFs out of digital records aggregated in these databases. GIFs made for this competition were submitted to the GIF IT Read more…
Boating at summer camp, Oaks, PA. Courtesy of Temple University. PA Digital has achieved many milestones in 2018. On March 2, we held an orientation webinar, hosted by our newest PA Digital Team Member, Stefanie Ramsay! You can view the recording here. We have had two harvests so far this Read more…
Observed in the United States on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day honors those who died in the armed forces. Many cities in the United States have claimed to be the originators of Memorial Day, including Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Boalsburg declared itself the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1864, according Read more…
We at PA Digital are wrapping up our work with our generous Knight Grant subaward from the DPLA for 2017. The funding from the Knight Grant allowed us to expand our outreach to potential contributors in the Knight Communities of Philadelphia and State College, PA. We have seen a sizable Read more…
Today marks PA Digital’s first anniversary as a live service hub to the Digital Public Library of America! In the last year, we have worked with institutions all over the state of Pennsylvania to expose more than 168,000 digital objects to the general public through the DPLA. We are grateful Read more…
As you may already know if you follow us (@PADigitalNews) or the Digital Public Library of America (@dpla) on Twitter, the DPLA collaborated with Europeana, DigitalNZ, and Trove last month to hold their annual GIF IT UP competition. GIF IT UP is an international gif-making contest in which entrants draw Read more…
A little over a year and a half ago, the PA Digital Founders Group first met in Philadelphia to discuss the potential for a Pennsylvania hub for the Digital Public Library of America. As of April 13, 2016, Pennsylvania content has been live on the DPLA site, with a total of 131,651 Read more…